How to move a WP blog to another hosting?

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Hi guys,

let's say I'd need to move a wordpress blog residing on my domain from a shared hosting account to dedicated hosting how would I do that? I'm not so familiar with the process.

I know it's not difficult when you have a website only, just make a backup and re-upload to another host. But with a wp blog you also have a mysql database and I don't know how I'd have to do the transfer etc. How do I transfer everything completely without any loss?

Furthermore, is there a way to do a smooth transfer without having your blog go offline? There is only my blog on this domain.

Thanks for your help.

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take the sql db that you have make a back up of it, them when you re upload all of the wp files that you currently have take the sql database and upload it , should work fine then

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http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server

Looks like you just edit the wp-config.php with the new servers settings. You may have to use the phpMyAdmin system.

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Here ya go:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/10/16/how-to-move-a-wordpress-blog-to-a-new-host-dls-recipe/

Instructions:

Step 1: Use SQLyog or phpMyAdmin to backup your entire database. You should also go into WP and use the backup plug-in to make a copy of the site itself (preferably offline and somewhere safe).

Step 2: Next, use your favorite FTP client and connect to your old host, where your site currently lives. You'll need to copy your theme files, especially if you have made any custom hacks to them. If you don't copy them out, you'll not have them when you move your site. WP newbie tip: All theme files reside in www.yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/themename. That is the folder you want to copy. If you have multiple themes, copy all you want to end up on your new host. I would copy them to your hard-drive, then later we'll put them back. You can copy the whole themes folder if you want, no big deal.

Step 3: You must also copy any theme files you have that you want to keep. These live in www.yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins. Copy the whole plug-ins folder for later.

Step 4: FTP to your new server. If you don't already have the WP software in a zip file, you'll need to download it here. Once downloaded, unzip it, and upload it to your new server via FTP.

Step 5: Install WP like you are setting up a new site. Create a new database, or use an existing one but be sure that the tablenames (table prefix) is exactly what it was on your old host during WP install. Once the new WordPress install is complete, now comes the fun part.

Step 6: Export your WP tables (or the whole database) that pertains to your WP blog from your old host. I generally use SQLyog community edition and export just my WP tables into a "textfile.sql" file on my hard drive.

Step 7: Go to your new host's MySQL database (just created with the new WP install process), and delete the new tables from the database.

Step 8: Use SQLyog to import your textfile.sql file into the new host's MySQL database.

Step 9: Simply FTP all your theme files and plug-ins to your new host's folders. The locations are exactly the same as your previous host (besides the root directory).

Step 10: Lastly, be sure you manually go into your sidebar, header, and any other files in your template and change anything you may have hard-coded to the old host. Most WP users don't have that problem unless they have custom hacks in place.

Hot tip: If you use AJAX, lightbox, and some other special add-ons that are not plug-ins, it is a good idea to let them reside in your theme folder, so if you move that theme, all the cool effects and special hacks go with the theme you're using. Makes things easy.

As long as your old tablenames match the new tablenames (that were installed by WP), your new host will fool your blog into thinking that it still lives with all the same data at the old host, but everything will point to the new host. This is part of the underlying structure of WP, and this makes the blog act like nothing changed, though you are duplicating the files and moving the physical location somewhere else. This act of splicing your WP install into another one you have created give you the ability to get exactly what you had before. Beware that this may not work, I obviously don't have every configuration and system out there. All of the moves I have tried using this method have worked flawlessly, and I have highly hacked and modified installs, so it should work for almost everyone.
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Uff, that is more complicated then I thought...

actually the domain and hosting provider would stay the same, only the server would change. At http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server it says

Note: If you are changing to a new server but same domain, all you need to do is edit wp-config.php and upload everything as it is to your new server.
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This means that nonetheless I have to make a backup of WP and database, right?

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Has anyone done that already? Were your custom hacks also backed up?

michael11, Dec 18, 2006 IP

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The description is a bit vague of which files to make a backup from. Shall I just save the whole WP folder and re-upload to the new server then?

This includes backing up your WordPress database as well as all the core files, images, plugins, and other files on your site
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I already made a backup of the db.

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Just download wordpress and upload on new server and run database backup moreover config.php with database info (New one )
Saad

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If you are moving to your dedicated server have root access download full backup from backup option select remote ftp backup option and then in dedicated server u can restore it. It will be done with in 2 mins.

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Even if you have cpanel/whm you can use whm account transfer tool anyway..if you want no downtime then set your blog on your server first then update ns
Saad

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So before I make a restore on the new server I'd have to first install WP on it, correct?

1. Install WP on new server
2. upload sql backup from old WP blog
3. upload/overwrite that new WP installation with all files from the old WP?

Would that approach be correct?

On my current shared hosting I only have cpanel with fanastico, with which I installed WP with 2-3 clicks.

A little confusing which order to do what in order not to lose anything incl. custom changes in the templates.

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Copy all files from old ftp to new and take backup from your hosting company and give it to new

letsjoy, Dec 22, 2006 IP

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